In case any of you have forgotten, this story is to practice my angst. Therefore, it will be as super-angsty as a pairing story can get.

So, if you’re hoping for a happy ending…stop reading please.

Oh, yes, why I haven’t updated:

I wanted to finish one of my other stories before I started going back to this one XD

You’ve all probably forgotten the plot…;3; I’m sorryyy…I feel so horrible XD

For those of you still reading…mad loves to joo fwom Neo :3

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Oh, and now you’ve all run away. ;3;

Okay…time for angst!

Chapter 4: The Real Problem

Last time:

“NEJIIIII!!!!”

This time:

Tenten stared in horror while screaming her lungs out as the man in front of her glared and lunged forward.

But this time, he wasn’t quick enough.

Kisho was knocked over as a Jyuuken was fired straight into his stomach. He winced in pain as the chakra stopped flowing to his stomach and grabbed the area as a reflex.

“Don’t. Touch. Her.” Neji sent a Byakugan-ified glare towards the man, getting a reaction he didn’t expect.

Kisho laughed. “Fine, kill me. It’ll do real good for her…Ichiro! Get her!”

Neji turned behind him, waiting to see a new enemy to defeat.

“What the…?” Neji looked around more. No one was there. “Shit!” He turned around quickly and saw Kisho had a kunai at Tenten’s throat and one through her stomach.

“Ne…ji…!” Tenten winced as blood started to drip from her neck and abdomen.

“BASTARD!” Neji ran at Kisho and brought his hand in front of the man’s face, pulling him back. He knocked the older man onto the floor and repeatedly punched him in the face.

Tenten closed her eyes slowly, trying her hardest to keep them open. Sure, she’s dealt with a puncture before, but one kunai went straight into her stomach and the other kunai had gotten far into her neck, and had almost reached her trachea. She coughed a weary breath, which got Neji’s attention from the rage-filled attack, and he got off of Kisho and turned back to his main priority: Tenten.

He took her hand off of her throat. The blood was dripping, large amounts and fast. He quickly put one arm around her back and one under her legs and picked her up. Carefully, he leapt out the window and headed to the hokage.

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“C’mon Tenten, you’ll make it…it’ll be okay…” Neji tried to comfort the slowly fading girl as they headed into the building where the hokage’s office would be. “You’re tougher then this! I know you are!”

Tenten winced in reply. Neji knew not to take the kunai out of her stomach, but just looking at it there was killing him.

Tenten looked up at the man carrying her to safety. Neji…Please stop…I’m not gonna make it this time… She tried to speak and tell him to stop, but nothing came out of her mouth but blood. A cough here or there would grab his attention, but he kept going towards the hokage’s.

Dammit…why does Tenten have to live so damn far away from the hokage?! Neji thought solemnly. And I can’t even run, or it’ll make it worse for her…damn! She’s not gonna make it at this rate!

Tenten was still losing blood through the puncture wound, although Neji tied part of his shirt around her neck to stop the bleeding there. They could see the hokage’s office, and Neji quickly stepped inside. Some ANBU and medic nins were inside, staring at the two as Neji stepped further down the hallway.

“You’re gonna make it Tenten…don’t give up yet…”

Tenten smiled weakly up at him. Maybe he’s right…maybe I will ma-

Suddenly her body jolted out of his arms and into an upright position.

“Tenten! You’re in no condition to-“

“Ne…ji…AHH!” A blinding light shot from her mouth, and the cut at her throat cleared up and the kunai in her stomach quickly dissolved, letting the wound heal correctly. Neji stared in horror. What in the hell is happening to her?! None of the other people in the hallway had seen her outburst, but turned when they heard a scream.

Tenten slumped to the ground, staring blankly at Neji. No, more like past Neji. She wasn’t really looking at anything, just staring into space.

Neji leaned forward. “Tenten…?” He put his hand on her shoulder, her reaction being a slow turn of her head to face him. “What…what’s wrong…?”

“Neji…” Tenten’s face was pale, and her eyes were turning red. Neji looked in horror. Is this even Tenten? What if I grabbed Kisho pretending to be her…! But he looked long and hard…it wasn’t Kisho, he was sure of that. But it couldn’t have been Tenten!

Another blinding light came from Tenten’s mouth, and this time her eyes as well, and when Neji looked at her again, her left palm was down on the floor and her right hand was grabbing the left wrist. It looked almost like a summoning jutsu position.

He looked at her strangely, curious and scared to find out what would happen next. The curiosity went away after he started to see tears fall down her cheeks. “TENTEN!”

One of the medic nin behind him came up towards him. “What’s wrong?” They stared at Tenten curiously. There’s not a scar on her body…but there’s blood all over the floor underneath her…

Neji turned towards the older man. “I don’t know! First she had all these wounds, then suddenly a bright light came out of her mouth and the wounds were all healed and now another light’s come out and she’s crying and I don’t know what’s happening!!” Neji’s voice was shaking and panicky, and the medic nin turned around.

“I’ll get the hokage. Try to keep her calm.” The man ran down the hall, soon gone from sight.

“T-Tenten…” Neji looked straight into her eyes. They were red and puffy, but he wasn’t sure if it was really from the crying. “Wh…what’s happening to you…?”

She just gave him another blank stare, tears spewing from her eyes. Eventually, her mouth formed words.

“Ne…ji…”

“Yes?”

“…de…mon…”

Neji stared at her strangely, until widening his eyes in remembrance of what Tsunade told him about Kisho’s original attack on Tenten.

“…run…”

Neji glared at her. “I won’t leave you like this, Tenten! That medic is getting Tsunade-sama! She’ll be able to do something…just wait!”

Neji looked back into her eyes, disgusted and shocked at seeing that her pupils were gone. He saw a light hitting the bottom of her chin, and looked down to see one more light coming from under her hand that was palm-down on the floor. This light was different though, it was a dark purple color, and had a force to it. It knocked Neji at least 6 feet away from Tenten, when he had been less than a foot from her before. The light started from under her arm, and her hand started to turn the same color as the light. It glided up her arm, towards her shoulder, spreading to her torso and waist before heading to her head. Tenten raised her head up with the last amount of strength she had that was with her own will.

“…please…Neji…I…love…y-“ And she went silent before finishing her statement, the light surrounding her face and the rest of her skin turning the dark purple color.

Neji’s eyes were wider than ever, and every other person in the hallway turned towards the girl, eyes just as wide. Murmurs could be heard around Neji…Did he do that? Some were saying. Is she dying…? That’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before! the more professional people would say. Neji could only slump onto the floor and gape at the figure encased in the dark purple light.

The light started to fade away, and Neji waited anxiously to see if Tenten was actually there.

The figure standing there…it had Tenten’s features, it was Tenten’s body, definitely. But it was not Tenten.

Her hair was down and messy, skin a darker color, and her eyes were pupil-less and red. And all the tears were gone, instead they’d been replaced by a huge, murderous grin. And when the light dissipated, Neji could feel those eyes staring straight at him, with huge amounts of bloodlust in their wake.

Neji only stared. He didn’t move, and neither did the people around him. Everyone wanted to know what would happen next.

Tenten’s body lunged towards Neji, nails sharper then ever in a claw-like form, grabbing his shoulders and clawing immediately into them. But the sharp and painful wound meant nothing to Neji, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

He couldn’t help her. He promised Tsunade-sama that he wouldn’t let this demon Kisho had stuck in Tenten take control of her body, and it was right in front of him, clawing into his very skin.

Neji did, however, notice the pain from its’ claws when Tenten’s body removed them with a jolting movement, bringing the Hyuuga back to reality. He screeched out in pain, looking pleadingly towards the ANBU around him.

They got into action, ready to take on the strange creature that was harming a Konoha jounin. One ANBU member stepped forward and threw a kunai into the demon’s back.

Tenten’s body didn’t even flinch. It quickly turned towards the ANBU member and shot the kunai from its’ back right back towards him, and it stabbed him right through the heart.

It had the demon’s speed and power, but Tenten’s aim added to it made it seem unstoppable. The other two ANBU stepped back in fear, but the demon quickly sliced each of them before they could get away. It turned back towards Neji, the bloodlust stronger than before.

Lunging for his neck, the demon grabbed ahold and pushed him against the wall. It slowly lifted back its’ hand, cracking the knuckles to stretch them out. Neji lifted up his head slowly, and opened his mouth to speak.

“Tenten…if you’re still in there…” He paused as her body sliced into his chest, scratching through the skin and muscle. “I…love…you…too…” He coughed painfully, forcing blood out of his mouth.

Tenten’s body stopped where it was and let go of his slowly dying body, letting it drop to the floor. Neji opened his eyes and looked up at her, smiling weakly as he saw pupils beginning to form in her eyes again. He closed his eyes and slowly waited for something, anything to happen.

“Ne…ji…”

Those were the last words he heard before his body went limp. Tenten’s body stared down, seeing his pale and un-moving body. The pupils that had started coming back disappeared faster then they came, and the creature let out a horrific cry.

It lurched back its’ hands and quickly dove them into her chest, reaching the heart and killing herself instantly. The pupils came back just in time for her eyes to close, and as she fell to the ground, her skin faded back to its’ original color and the feeling of bloodlust died out. Her body fell slowly onto Neji’s, her chest on his legs as his body was in a sitting-up position.

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Tsunade ran towards the young-adults, staring horrified at the scene before her. Three dead ANBU members lying against one wall, and two dead shinobi against another. She brought her hands to her mouth in shock, tears forming in her eyes. “Wh-…why didn’t you get me sooner?!” She yelled at the medic who had gotten her. “Maybe…maybe I could’ve stopped this!”

The medic smirked. “Well, I really wanted to see my attack coming into effect. I’ve never really gotten to witness it before, and knowing what it does is nothing compared to seeing it first-hand.” He laughed evilly. “The boy was a naiive fool! He didn’t even finish me off before taking the girl he-“ Kisho stopped speaking as Tsunade quickly grabbed the collar of his shirt, lifting him into the air and throwing him across the room. From the wounds he’d gotten from Neji earlier, to the impact of being thrown against the wall, the lights went out for him and he fell to the floor, completely unconscious.

“Fucking…bastard…” Tsunade put a hand over her eyes. This could’ve been avoided…I know it could’ve!

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Well…uh…yeah. Angsty, huh? Well, I think this chapter might seem confusing to a lot of people. That’s why next chapter is gonna be Kisho’s interrogation, where we find out exactly what was going on inside Tenten as the demon took over.

Please review! Flames will be ignored.

Oh…and, uh…why did Kisho tell Tsunade it was his attack? I guess he was still dillusional from Neji’s attacks earlier. Yeah, sure. XD

OH AND BTW, I wrote this chapter a few months ago xD; Sorry I never posted it o3o